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Stewed fruit well sweetened, and put into glass bottles well corked; 3 or 4 dozen plain pastry biscuits to eat with the stewed fruit,
To Say Nothing of the Three Crates of Picnic Provisions « Dyepot, Teapot 2008
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I beg that you will neither give yourself, nor Mr. Fitzhugh, much trouble about the pine plants; for as it is three years before they fruit,
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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Carlo stopped, looked down, and then added, as he advanced to the breakfast-table, and took up the basket of fruit,
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Of course this may be extended to include pudding, stewed fruit,
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In several cases I recognised not only the people themselves but themselves as they used to be, like Ski, for instance, who was no more changed than a dried flower or fruit,
Time Regained 2003
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The HoR has agreed to the appointment of substitute teachers in posts left vacant when nearly 600 HoR teachers resigned earlier this year, and negotiations on a "living wage" had borne fruit,
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As he climb'd some high rocks in his search for the fruit,
The Keepsake or, Poems and Pictures for Childhood and Youth Anonymous
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Walks a maid that is fairer than all its rich fruit,
The Poetry of Wales John Jenkins
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The second generation passes the winter in the pupa state, attached to leaves which fall to the ground; therefore, if all the dead and dried leaves be gathered in the fall and burned, also all the decayed fruit,
Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891 Various
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The choice of flowers, the arrangement of the fruit,
The Minstrel A Collection of Poems Lennox Amott
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